With this technology you can produce your own Hydrogen at home for free

So we all know that I am extremely pro-Hydrogen. I believe that Hydrogen is the fuel that will power our future, from our cars to even power systems. But there are some problems with the fuel, namely a lack of infrastructure, storage and production costs. Now in the last year huge leaps have been made in all of these fields, making the technology more and more viable.

But this company from Belgium just created the technology that I feel proves the viability of Hydrogen. Firstly how would you feel if you could fuel your car for free? If you could produce hydrogen that can be used to power your house, all of this for free. Toyota is already busy building systems that burn Hydrogen to power our houses. The only thing we need is the Hydrogen, and with this technology we wouldn’t need to buy the Hydrogen.

KU Leuven researchers in Belgium have created a hydrogen solar panel that directly converts water vapor from the air into hydrogen gas. Now if their claims are true this solar panel produces 250 litres of Hydrogen a day. They are developing it under the Solhyd project, which is now in a transition phase from research to spinoff.

So how does these panels work?
Lets find out

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[letsmakethis]

250L at normal pressure is 22g of hydrogen. The typical hydrogen fuel cell vehicle gets about 96km per kg. With your 22g of hydrogen, you'll be able to drive about 2km.

The panel appears to be about 2 m^2. For comparison, a 2m^2 solar panel would produce about 2 kwh a day in Belgium. A good EV gets > 6km per kwh, so your solar panel would take you 12 km.

This ignores the losses if you want to compress the hydrogen (about 10%) or liquefy it (30%).

[alextrevino]

I find the commentary to be more informative than the video. Energy density is everything.

[whatthefunction]

250 liters if h2 at 1 atmosphere will run your car for 5 minutes...

[maxring]

Everyone ignores energy density when discussing hydrogen.

[ronlabe]

The hard part with hydrogen is... you need to compress it to high pressure to carry any meaningful amount. To run your car you are going to be filling tanks at 2000-3000psi. That pump is very expensive. Its also somewhat dangerous to be running around with that kind of pressure.

[jaglazzarinim]

yes I love the idea of making hydrogen from solar directly

[garypippenger]

Untrained, unequipped homeowners producing and storing hydrogen? What could possibly go wrong with that?? ICEs burning hydrogen? So we will still lose energy to heat losses, still have oil changes, engine repairs . . . . Yes, but in addition, we will have spectacular YouTube content with video of exploding cars and hot, hot fires. Well, thanks, so much.

[nazhihamdan]

Problem is storage and not production. The safety issues for a large tank full of hydrogen are, to put it mildly, significant.

[salta]

Having hydrogen at home must be handled with quite a high level of...security....😊

[edwardconnor]

Theres a man in Jersey who has accomplished everything that you are dreaming about, he was threatened to keep quiet, I've seen the setup, solar electric, seperates the hydrogen, he sells the oxygen.

[lIII]

How will the gas be compressed? Do you have any info on compressing hydrogen?

[petkndy]

I don't understand, how is the gas pressurized and chilled? Liquid hydrogen (LH2) is typically stored at extremely low temperatures and low pressures to keep it in its liquid state. The boiling point of hydrogen at one atmosphere of pressure is about -252.87 degrees Celsius (-423.17 degrees Fahrenheit). To keep hydrogen in its liquid form, it needs to be maintained at temperatures close to or below its boiling point.

[michaelliebst]

I am looking into a hydrogen generator to power a combustion generator for powering my home. Unfortunately, from what I've seen so far, powering a car with stored hydrogen is extremely difficult.

[albertlevert]

At what pressure do you suggest to store hydrogen and how much energy will you need for that ?

[coffeebuzzz]

250 litres of hydrogen is about 20 grams. It would take about ten days production to equal 1 litre of petrol.

[jeanlefranc]

Another video for daydreamers.

1) how many kWh of H2 can you produce on a sunny day, keeping in mind EVs consumption ranges between 10 and 15 kWh / 100 km if you drive sensibly ?

2) Fuel cell cars running on H2 are filled between 300 and 700 bars at the pump. How do you manage such high pressures in a domestic environment ?

[davebing]

so at room temp, 120 L of H2 has approx 360wh or 0.36 KWh of energy which is equivalent to 0.03 gallon of Gasoline. In other words, to replace 1 gallon of gasoline would take over 4000 L of Hydrogen

[NoahSpurrier]

Are we talking liters of hydrogen gas or liquid? 250 liters of hydrogen gas is nothing. That would be completely worthless. 250 liters of liquid hydrogen would be very useful, but also completely impossible with the power of the solar panels shown. I’m calling BS on this thing. Maybe someone got their facts wrong.

[russellsheridan]

You won't be able to store the hydrogen itself except in low amounts probably. It's the same problem with filling up tires with air pressure. You need the generator to generate enough energy to fill the tanks, or a compressor. This means the generated hydrogen would have to be immediately burnt by a generator and then the electricity stored in a battery. And filling up your hydrogen car would take hours. Meanwhile your generator wouldn't be running.

[wzy]

When I was 12 I got a chemistry set for Christmas. One of the experiments was making hydrogen. Fortunately it just made a small explosion and fire. I was told not to do those experiments in the house any more.